I think that any writing that uses the phrases "...head-spinningly great, jaw-clenchingly urgent, or brain-meltingly obvious" is just mind-blowingly amazing!
And there is much more to this post. It focuses on how our passion for our purpose, when combined with an old model of leadership which involves fear and bullying to force our point of view, is in the end no different than the "leadership" of demagogues and bullies themselves.
We have to rewire our brain to first accept people, in their entire life journeys, and then lead them to see their own truth through love. And according to the blogger, our very existence depends on making this change!
https://medium.com/bad-words/the-biggest-little-challenge-in-leadership-c247e2d45497#.gq95jg9ff
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Tuesday 21 June 2016
Sunday 19 June 2016
Product Marketers have a Valueable Lesson to Help Hide Changes
Often when a habit fails, it's because the change is too dramatic for our routine-obsessed "animal brain". There is something we can learn from major food manufacturers to help.
If the price of a product increase, we will usually notice this. It is a conscious component that we are confronted with every time... last week this was $6.49, and this week it's $6.99.
So to absorb the increased cost of raw materials and transportation, manufacturers are quietly changing another number; the package size. What was once 650 ml is now 600 ml.
This is a great way to change habits... a tiny bit at a time, and do so by starting "around the edges". Marketers know better than to hit the consumer "cold turkey" with a shocking price increase, as their customers will react, and perhaps not in a favourable manner. So have the price increase accompany a promotion, or for a larger size (which you then gradually reduce in size.)
I remember this phenomenon during the hey-day of the 1970s when inflation was running in the high single digits (and eventually low double-digits) in Canada. My favourite brand of Hostess Potato chips were .10 cents. And then Hostess came out with a "new, bigger size" for .15 cents... effectively a 50% price rise. Months later, the old size disappeared and only the new "bigger size" was available.
But it was the 70s, so they were already planning their next price increase, which was a shocking 67% increase (I'm actually;y figuring this out for the first time, and I'm shocked!) There was suddenly a .25 cent bag of chips... which was bigger... but at the same time, the previous big bag became the same size as the old regular size.
And so it continued throughout the 70s and early 80s, as the price went to .50, then .75, then .99... and everytime there was a bonus offered while we acclimatized to the new higher prices.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-06-11-shrinking-sizes_N.htm
If the price of a product increase, we will usually notice this. It is a conscious component that we are confronted with every time... last week this was $6.49, and this week it's $6.99.
So to absorb the increased cost of raw materials and transportation, manufacturers are quietly changing another number; the package size. What was once 650 ml is now 600 ml.
This is a great way to change habits... a tiny bit at a time, and do so by starting "around the edges". Marketers know better than to hit the consumer "cold turkey" with a shocking price increase, as their customers will react, and perhaps not in a favourable manner. So have the price increase accompany a promotion, or for a larger size (which you then gradually reduce in size.)
I remember this phenomenon during the hey-day of the 1970s when inflation was running in the high single digits (and eventually low double-digits) in Canada. My favourite brand of Hostess Potato chips were .10 cents. And then Hostess came out with a "new, bigger size" for .15 cents... effectively a 50% price rise. Months later, the old size disappeared and only the new "bigger size" was available.
But it was the 70s, so they were already planning their next price increase, which was a shocking 67% increase (I'm actually;y figuring this out for the first time, and I'm shocked!) There was suddenly a .25 cent bag of chips... which was bigger... but at the same time, the previous big bag became the same size as the old regular size.
And so it continued throughout the 70s and early 80s, as the price went to .50, then .75, then .99... and everytime there was a bonus offered while we acclimatized to the new higher prices.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-06-11-shrinking-sizes_N.htm
Sunday 12 June 2016
How To Lose Weight Without Dieting
Once we become aware of our triggers and conscious of our food decisions, we are able to then make small changes which have a big effect.
In this article, the authors offer up 4 practical tips to help different types of overeaters. I personally like the "Chew sugarfree gum while shopping, and buy 7% less junk food."
https://qz.com/269930/a-cornell-scientist-came-up-with-four-ways-to-lose-weight-without-dieting/
In this article, the authors offer up 4 practical tips to help different types of overeaters. I personally like the "Chew sugarfree gum while shopping, and buy 7% less junk food."
https://qz.com/269930/a-cornell-scientist-came-up-with-four-ways-to-lose-weight-without-dieting/
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